That is where this book comes in.

Richard
Delgado and
Jean Stefancic have written a primer for
nonlawyers that
makes the now sprawling literature of critical
race theory
easily accessible to the beginner. From the
earliest social and
intellectual origins of the movement to its key
themes and
debates to its methods to its future, Delgado
and Stefancic
offer a lively, lucid guide to critical race theory
and a starting
place for further reading and thinking. With the
help of this
book, even students who find their official
course reading
lists as barren as I did in 1983 will find their
way into a rich
and important intellectual debate.
Critical race theory not only dares to treat race
as central
to the law and policy of the United States, it
dares to look be-
yond the popular belief that getting rid of
racism means sim-
ply getting rid of ignorance, or encouraging
everyone to “get
along.” To read this primer is to be sobered by
the recogni-
tion that racism is part of the structure of legal
institutions,
but also to be invigorated by the creativity,
power, wit, and
humanity of the voices speaking about ways to
change that